ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6

ByteDance SeedID: bytedance-seed/seed-1.6

Seed 1.6 is a general-purpose model released by the ByteDance Seed team. It incorporates multimodal capabilities and adaptive deep thinking with a 256K context window.

Pricing per 1M Tokens

Input (Prompt)$0.25
Output (Completion)$2.00
Cache ReadFree
Cache WriteFree
ImageN/A

Specifications

Context Length262K
Max Output Tokens33K
Input ModalitiesImage + Text + Video
Output ModalitiesText
TokenizerOther
Instruct TypeN/A
Top Provider Context262K
Top Provider Max Output33K
ModeratedNo

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Last updated: March 23, 2026

First tracked: March 23, 2026